PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)
　　The passage contains TEN errors．Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error．In each case, only ONE word is involved．You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:
　　For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
　　For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "L" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
　　For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
　　EXAMPLE
　　When A art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an
　　it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never
　　them on the wall．When a natural history museum
　　wants an exhibition, it must often build it． (3) exhibit　　
　　Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.　　
　　The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely．The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______
　　century B.C．Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers
　　favoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______
　　sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______
　　the manner．This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______
　　wanted the truth to be read and understood．Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______
　　century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that
　　the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______
　　was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______
　　gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______
　　literal as possible．This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______
　　extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.
　　The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the
　　nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed．Too
　　often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with
　　each other．Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains． (10) _____
　　参考答案：
　　1．going后加on
　　2．certain改为a certain
　　3．rather改为not
　　4．is 改为was
　　5．in 改为 at
　　6．去掉第二个the
　　7．view后面加that
　　8．去掉 was
　　9．culminated后面加in
　　10．and 改为but

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